Daphne Vane has just been informed by a troll that she’s not entirely human. This is not something that happens to most us. All of which raises the question of just who and what Daphne really is. But before she can get very far in that investigation, her life takes another unusual turn. Read all about it in “Questionable identities,” chapter 9 of To Ride the Lightning Bolt, my weekly serial about a young women with too many issues of a most fantastic kind.